- Fixed a backpack zipper
- Found safety pins to repair a wardrobe emergency
- Listened to a long story about a rough weekend
- Fought the copier machine and won
- Fought the copier machine and lost
- Troubleshot four computer issues
- Diffused a potential fight
- Had a heart to heart with a kid about motivation and effort
- Organized the paperwork left after a day with a sub on Friday
- Answered two emails from worried parents (there are still 4 more waiting for later)
- Updated the grades for one class
- Debated what is lost vs. what is gained by having our students do most of their work on computers with a group of other teachers
- Provided missing school supplies for eight children
- Laughed at a bad joke I'd heard many times before
- Gave out a band-aid
- Translated the directions in a social studies assignment for a student who has LEP (limited English proficiency)
- Congratulated a student on a sports accomplishment I didn't quite understand, but knew she was proud of
- Provided extra copies of lost assignments to four students
- Supervised the hallway during four class transition times
- Helped a kid choose a new seat where she might be more productive
- Stopped a kid from spoiling Avengers Endgame for another kid who hadn't seen it yet; had a conversation about why that's rude and unkind.
- Reassured a kid about a new haircut
- Cleaned new graffiti off a classroom table (luckily, they wrote in pencil: easy clean)
- Emptied the stinky garbage missed by the night cleaning crew
- Let a kid read me "the best part" of a book they're in love with
- Located the missing remote control for the projector
- Provided feminine hygiene products discreetly
- Hugged a kid who needed it
- Did deep breathing with a kid who needed to calm down
- Listened to a heartbreak story sympathetically
- Helped clean up a spilled water bottle and rescue the homework that was dampened
No wonder I'm tired by day's end. I've also taught three lessons so far today. Four more to go!
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